Tsunami waves--some reportedly 15 feet (4.5 meters) tall--flattened villages and killed scores of people in American Samoa, a U.S. territory, and the independent island nation of Samoa (Samoa location on map). At least 34 and up to 120 people are feared dead across Samoa so far. Some tsunami-related deaths have also been reported on the neighboring islands of Tonga, according to the BBC.